Minutes reframed a parent’s concern as a defensive arm’s-length report

Evidence

Geoffrey’s minutes for that meeting reported: … Charles Jones relayed an incident for information [my emphasis]. He is investigating on behalf of some parents who requested help from the NAACP. He is in charge of such investigations by the NAACP. The event involved a substitute teacher [notice his emphasis that the teacher was not really a real one] who made a racially derogatory statement in class. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 236

Categorization

• XREF: Shows how record-keeping itself performs the distancing — the secretary’s drafting choices convert Charles’s grievance into ‘information’ with emphasized disclaimer layers, tying to the archival-work theme in Along the Archival Grain.